New users on eZ sites

Thursday 01 December 2005 12:50:56 am

I've set up a shop and learnt the hard way that a user MUST be logged in in order to finish an order. I've accepted that and now I want the process to be alittle smoother. Currently I have:

Shop items
Go to basket
Checkout
--- Login
Paypal
Done

The login part is one of two: either the user exists and logs in, no problem. If the user needs to register, we get this:

Shop items
Go to basket
Checkout
Register new account
Receive email
Activate account
Go to basket
Checkout
Paypal
Done

Which, honestly, is way too complicated to complete a simple order. Can I somehow cut down on the number of steps in the user registration? I would like it to go like this:

Shop items
Go to basket
Checkout
Register new account
Paypal
Done

Monday 09 January 2006 6:31:13 am

But what should those .ini settings be if you do want your users to recieve an email confirmation, but do not want them to activate their accounts by following a link from the email?

Is this even possible? Or do users always need to activate before they can use their account (after signing up?)